Senior Scrum Master

Duration: 5+ Months

Location: MN-Minneapolis, 100% Remote

Overview: Every Turnberry consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group of consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. Each of these practices aligns to one of the core services Turnberry offers to clients. As a Senior Scrum Master, you will join Turnberry's Business Agility practice. Turnberry's Business Agility practice provides ways-of-working assessments with supporting improvement recommendations, Product Management and Agile Delivery education opportunities, team and enterprise-level Product and Agile coaching, and strategic staffing for each of the skills required to drive Agile and/or Project to Product transformation journeys.

Responsibilities:

Partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery, plan and execute product tasks, and drive results through both product team members and stakeholders

Leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise

Ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates

Serve as a leader in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology

Provide expert consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintain the product roadmap, release plan, and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team

Lead multiple product teams or large initiatives, monitor progress across all products to ensure on target, and provide needed support to remove obstacles to achieve product deliverables

Lead product teams and manage all activities (including strategy and ideation), in a product life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing/controlling, and closing) associated with high visibility products that are long-term, across one or more lines of business, and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses

Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration

Enable the team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible

Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Identify areas for process improvement and establish effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes

Provide leadership to assigned product managers to establish product plans and objectives that result in on-time and on-budget outcome

Track progress and provide updates on any changes in strategy or priorities

Effectively communicate relevant status and initiative level metrics to senior executives on the progress of individual products and the overall initiative

Establish and maintain a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs

Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence

Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Product community

Keep the rest of the company network aware of activities

Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)

Qualifications:

At least 4 years of Scrum Master experience

Flexibility in how to manage scrum and agile ceremonies

Ability and willingness to mentor an associate level, part-time Scrum Master

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or equivalent work experience

Certified Scrum Master or similar certification (preferred)

Master's degree in a related field (preferred)

4-6 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business lead initiatives, at least 3 years as a ScrumMaster or related experience

Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures

Expertise with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices

High level of organization and attention to detail

Passion and understanding of new technology and trends

Excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills among all organizational levels

Strong facilitation and executive communications skills

Experience in leading agile teams in SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban context

Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities

Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification, tracking, follow-up, escalation, and contingency planning on risks, issues

Demonstrates mastery of software development processes and procedures, including test driven development, incremental development approaches, and technical change management

Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships

Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics

Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives

Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel

Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment

No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex product teams with cross-functional team members

The salary range for this role is $115,000 to $165,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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